Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: foleykoontz on October 17, 2008, 11:14:03 am
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Hey I've got a 2-player X-arcade that's great but now I want to build a 4-player control panel. The problem is I want to use the X-arcade guts for the 1 and 2 player so it can still play on my dreamcast (Or do some 4-player setups come with that hookup also?). So what should I do, I was thinking of buying a 2-player encoder for the 3rd and 4th player but can you change the keyboard layout on those or would I have to change the X-arcades? Any suggestions on a good encoder?
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Wire the second X-Arcade through the first and change the second to a custom keyset. I think people have done this before.
So...you have it like this:
PC ---> (X-Arcade 1 w/Normal Config) <-- (X-Arcade 2 w/custom config)
Dreamcast ---^
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There are many ways to go about this. To list a few:
X-arcade + 2 PC gamepads. Leave X-arcade alone, but remap mame so the gamepads control players 3 & 4 instead of 1 & 2.
X-arcade + u360/gp-wiz/ or gamepad hack. Same as above, but make a CP for p3 & p4.
X-arcade + ipac2/key-wiz. Again, leave X-Arcade alone, but remap the ipac/keywiz encoder. Remap mame to match the encoder.
I didn't know the x-arcade could be remapped. If it can, what Necro said.
X-Arcade + ipac4 + parallel wiring the x-arcade to also the ipac4. Ipac4 hooked to PC, x-arcade hooked only to dreamcast. Careful about one system shorting the other. (IMO hard.)